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06/15/08 03:33 AM

06/16/08 10:24 AM

You are right. Hemingway sounds stilted and unsure. Not at all stentorian which is how I figured he would always sound. Faulkner did sound like what Faulkner might sound but towards the end there not so much. Can't say why. Love it that you think about these things. Still remember how disappointed I was the first time I heard David Beckham's voice - thought he sounded girly. Returning to the literary vein however, Isabel Allende sounds just like she should. Have you ever heard her?

06/16/08 04:47 PM

JP said...

For me, it's the other way around. When I first read Faulkner, in high school, I imagined his voice as the voice of God - very profound, resonant, authoritative. I was shocked, and quite disappointed, the first time I heard his high, thin voice.

By the way, Kevin says hi.

06/17/08 10:47 AM

raul said...

My childhood art teacher lived down the road from Faulker and in her words, "In high school we used to drive up there and sit on his porch. He taught us all to drink." She and her husband were both from the area near Oxford Mississippi and had that specific accent and I always pictured his voice like theirs so it wasn't a surprise... But Hemingway, man what a disappointment... with his enunciated 'writers' he sounds almost effete.